It’s oh so quiet in Roscommon but Kevin McStay will channel hurt

Roscommon have kept a quiet house these past few months. It is, perhaps, why interest has moved elsewhere.

Kevin McStay, you get the feeling, is thankful they’re out of the spotlight. In the job since October of 2015, he’s had his fair share of headlines to contend with. Some positive, most were not.

Where 2016 had opened brightly with league wins in Killarney, Páirc Uí Rinn and Letterkenny, the year finished on a particularly sour note. Joint-manager Fergal O’Donnell, along with Stephen Bohan and David Casey, walked from the set-up in September, claiming “a concerted effort had been made (outside of management and players) to undermine and disparage” them.